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we got an email from the head of HR about the importance of maintaining "time out of meetings" and "work life balance" with tips like "don't scheduled meetings during lunch time and make sure you have breaks between them" and it's a total loving joke because every single day is almost non stop slammed with meetings from people asking for either a) can you do X or b) actually Y is more urgent we need to discuss it or c) a status update on why X has not been done
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:we got an email from the head of HR about the importance of maintaining "time out of meetings" and "work life balance" with tips like "don't scheduled meetings during lunch time and make sure you have breaks between them" and it's a total loving joke because every single day is almost non stop slammed with meetings from people asking for either a) can you do X or b) actually Y is more urgent we need to discuss it or c) a status update on why X has not been done *schedules three hours of meetings per day* “why is your productivity so far down????”
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We used to have a meeting where a manager would go through charts line by line and would take anywhere from 1-2 hours before we discussed actual useful stuff for 15 minutes, and then she'd hold the scrummasters/POs for another 30 minutes - 1 hour. Lmfao I guess she noticed no one was showing up so the important stuff is now the first 15 minutes.
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Feb 28, 2021 03:27
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Kazinsal posted:*schedules three hours of meetings per day* yeah my company decided that instead of just not inviting devs to useless meetings they should instead just have us at 5hrs capacity a day also no meeting {day of the week} always ends up lasting about a month and then they try again with a different day
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Shaman Linavi posted:yeah my company decided that instead of just not inviting devs to useless meetings they should instead just have us at 5hrs capacity a day last week I didn't have a single day without meetings from 11am to 12:30 and then from 1pm to 2pm most of those were an absolute waste of my time. two were partially wastes of my time. only one was productive and it was a project kickoff call with a customer, so I killed almost fifteen hours blindly nodding along to meetings while reading SA and hoo boy does that ever make me feel like I should give a poo poo about my job
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Feb 28, 2021 04:11
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Kazinsal posted:*schedules three hours of meetings per day* If I have less than three hours worth of meetings on my schedule during any given hour I’m in pretty good shape.
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Feb 28, 2021 04:46
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i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done.
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Feb 28, 2021 04:51
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President Beep posted:i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done. I usually lob up the first 3-4 hours of my day for doing work. After lunch I my brain is incapable of focusing on anything work related.
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Feb 28, 2021 04:54
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President Beep posted:i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done. My calendar is a todo list now. I won’t even say I’m gonna send an email if I can’t block 15 minutes. Usually at 8am the next morning.
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Feb 28, 2021 05:04
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we try to have staff meetings but its a challenge to get everyone there and I suggested at the managers meeting that maybe we put up a sign saying "no one on duty for the next 15 minutes for staff meeting" every few weeks or so and everyone immediately was like "hell no", apparently our business is predicated on being available to the customers every whim at a seconds notice.
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Feb 28, 2021 05:08
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I usually lob up the first 3-4 hours of my day for doing work. After lunch I my brain is incapable of focusing on anything work related. that’s when I’m usually most coherent, so I actually prefer morning meetings. in the afternoon i’m usually mentally wrecked or hyper focused on something. tk posted:My calendar is a todo list now. I won’t even say I’m gonna send an email if I can’t block 15 minutes. Usually at 8am the next morning. this seems like a useful practice. might try it.
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President Beep posted:i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done. ime this is the precursor to leaving a job
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President Beep posted:i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:ime this is the precursor to leaving a job no way. not willingly, at least. I’ve got a good thing going. just very busy.
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Roosevelt posted:do a rodtronics live laugh love i dare you 
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this but an animation where LAUGH being oversized and in the middle causes the entire thing to collapse horrifically
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brb printing this 24"x36" to frame for my hallway
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:ime this is the precursor to leaving a job Everybody is fried and unmotivated and a lot of the meetings on my schedule are people that just want to talk.
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President Beep posted:i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done. tried this, they just started phoning me up asking me to attend last week I lost my temper after I got phoned 4 times while in the bathroom between a 1.5 hour meeting and a 2 hour meeting and told them that the reason gently caress all progress was being made on this particular project was because it was burning 30% of everyone's time on so many meetings then the PM added 3 mandatory attendance status updates every week as well because the problem was clearly that we didn't have enough status reports 
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"can you join the call please? We are waiting" just gently caress right off. I declined it 3 times because its 6pm on a Friday m, what makes you think sending me the invite a 4th time is going to get a different response?
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Feb 28, 2021 09:24
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President Beep posted:i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done. this is no joke what my manager told my entire team to do people will not send stupid meeting invites if you have a bunch of appointments like "webex with TAC SR#420691337" and "call with [customer] to replicate bug" stacked throughout your calendar
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Jonny 290 posted:thats been my biggest argument against the subset of people i know who are all "oh noooo i TOTALLY got covid, super covid even, in the first week of the outbreak, but i survived so i'm safe now and can go out to eat six times a week"* tell them to donate blood. the antibody test is free
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:"can you join the call please? We are waiting" just gently caress right off. I declined it 3 times because its 6pm on a Friday m, what makes you think sending me the invite a 4th time is going to get a different response? This happened to me recently, despite my telling someone multiple times I sign off around 3. He created a meeting for 4:45 on a Friday and was upset that I didn't show up. The rescheduled meeting is now 4 this Wednesday. 
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Feb 28, 2021 10:12
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Kazinsal posted:this is no joke what my manager told my entire team to do at my company literally nobody checks the calendars first so this doesn’t work
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Feb 28, 2021 12:41
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Kazinsal posted:this is no joke what my manager told my entire team to do It won’t stop the stupid meeting invites at all. Not long term. If you’re blocked all of today/tomorrow people will just throw and invite out and hope you can make it work. You still have to be aggressive about declining meetings, and people will guilt trip you like you thought only your mom could. The good news is that how your spend your time is not their business. And if your manager is willing (and able) to back you up, you can just say no sorry you’re busy and leave it at that. AnimeIsTrash posted:This happened to me recently, despite my telling someone multiple times I sign off around 3. He created a meeting for 4:45 on a Friday and was upset that I didn't show up. The rescheduled meeting is now 4 this Wednesday. Oh sorry, had a late conflict pop up, I’m going to have to push this one again. I can’t believe we’re having such a hard time meeting up! tk fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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if the meeting content is so urgent that everyone needs to know it regardless of what they’re doing they can send an email
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President Beep posted:i’m gonna start blocking off big chunks of time so i can get some poo poo done. i used to do this. i'd block a few hours in the morning, i'd block my lunch hours, and i'd block the last 30 minutes of my day so people couldn't book me into meetings that would inevitably keep me late. now i work at a place where i have a few hours of meetings per week so i don't need to bother
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we just got the official 'you don't have to come back to the office ever, except every so often for some workshops'. I guess I'm going to go drive property values up in a semi rural area somewhere two hours from the office.
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jesus WEP posted:yeah quote:Exactly what protection does a vaccine with 95% efficacy provide?
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:we just got the official 'you don't have to come back to the office ever, except every so often for some workshops'. I guess I'm going to go drive property values up in a semi rural area somewhere two hours from the office. make sure you can get decent internet before you move. lots of people in rural ontario are discovering how bad and expensive internet over 3g can be lol
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